Hood for road-vehicles.



QBERT A D. HOOD FOR ROAD VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.12,1908.

956,563. Patented May 3, 1910.

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HOOD FOR ROAD-VEHICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 12, 1908.

Serial N 0. 467,282.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLovIs BERTRAND, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at Barnes, in the county of London, England, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoods for Road-Vehicles, and of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improvedconstruction and combination of parts composing supporting members of afolding hood for road vehicles, particularly motor driven road vehicles,and according to this invention a. rod is provided upon each side of thevehicle, the said rods being pivoted at their lower ends to the saidbody. Telescoping on to the upper ends of these rods are the two ends ofa central or main hoop, and upon each of the said rods below the end ofthe said main hoop there is fitted a sleeve which will slide on the saidpivoted rod independently of the said central hoop. To oppositelyextending lugs on each sleeve are pivoted the ends of two side hoops andnear each pivoted end of said side hoops one end of a link is pivoted,the opposite ends of these two links being pivoted to near the lower endof the central telescopic hoop. Means are provided for limiting thetelescopic motion of the ends of the central hoop upon the pivoted rodsand means are also provided for fixing the sliding sleeves in positionupon the said rods when the hood is opened out.

The invention will now be described with reference to the accompanyingdrawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the hood constructed according tothis invention and a portion of the vehicle to which the said hood isattached, the hood being in the opened-out position. -Fig. 2 is a halfvertical transverse section taken about the line 22 of Fig. 1, and Fig.3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but showing the hood closed. Fig. 4 is asectional side elevation of the supporting members of the hood in theopen position, and Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the members closed.Fig. 6 is a horizontal section on the line 66' Fig. 4 to illustrate thejointing of the links, and Fig. 7 is a horizontal section on the lines77 Fig. 4, showing the sliding bracket and the jointing thereto of theside members.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is the central hoop-like member whichextends from one side of the vehicle body to the other as shown at Fig.2 and is tubular, while 2 and 3 indicate the side hoop-like members alsoextending from one side of the vehicle body to the other. Theconnections and attachments of these hoop-like members to one another,and to the body of the vehicle, are precisely similar as aforesaid uponeach side of the said vehicle, and therefore in describing theconstruction it will be sufficient to refer to one side only. Thecentral member 1 fits telescopically over the supportin rod 4, whichlatter is pivoted at 5 to the b0 y of the vehicle as shown, and upon thesupporting rod 4 there is a sleeve bracket 6 capable of sliding upon thesaid rod, and the bracket 6, as shown at Fig. 7 has lugs to which thelower ends of the side members 2 and 3 are respectively pivoted.

At a distance from the lower end of the side member 2 there is pivoted,upon a pivot 15, to the said side member one end of a link 7, andsimilarly at a distance from the lower end of the side member 3 there ispivoted, upon a pivot 16, to the latter member one end of a link 8, andthe opposite ends of these two links are pivoted upon a pivot 9 (Fig. 6)extending from a collar or the like fixed upon the central member 1.

.Means are provided whereby the sliding bracket 6 can be fixed in theraised position shown at Fig. 4 when the hood is open, that is can befixed to the supporting rod, and in the example shown a hole extendsthrough the bracket and through the supporting rod (which latter may betubular). When these holes in the bracket and in the supporting rod 4aline, a pin, 12, Figs. 4 and 7 can be inserted and the bracket so heldin position.

The supporting rod 4 is formed with a longitudinal slot or groove 11 anda screw or stud 10 passes through the tubular central member and entersthe said slot 11, so that the extent of vertical motion of the centralmember upon the supporting rod is limited. In Fig. 4 the central memberhas reached its highest position upon the said supporting rod, while thesliding bracket (3 is also in its highest position and in that positionin which its locking pin 12 (Fig. 7) can be inserted.

The central and side members 1, 2, 3 carry and are connected by aflexible covering 13, which may be of canvas, leather or any othersuitable or approved material, and the rear end of this covering, asshown at Fig. 1, can

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be attached to the vehicle body, while the forward side member, when thehood is opened out, is held by a strap or the like 14-.

To close the hood so constructed, that is to say to change the positionof its members from that shown at Figs. 1 and 4. to that shown at Figs.3 and 5, the sliding bracket 6 is released, that is to say, its lockingpin 12 is withdrawn and it is slid down upon the supporting rod 4 alongwith the consequent closure of the side members 2 and 3 toward thecentral member 1, and then the whole structure, that is the three sidemembers, is slid down the supporting rod. They will then assume theposition shown at Fig. 5, and upon the supporting rod at being turnedabout its pivot 5, the members will assume the position shown at Fig. 3,and it will be observed that they do not project, when so contracted andshortened, appreciably beyond the back of the seat or the back of thevehicle. The hood is opened by reversing the operations just described.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by patent is i 1. Infolding hoods for road vehicles the combination of a supporting rod uponeach side of a vehicle, pivots connecting the lower ends of suchsupporting rods to said vehicle, a main hoop-like member to extendacross the vehicle having its two ends straight. and tubular to fit overand telescopically move upon the free ends of said pivoted supportingrods, means for limiting the telescopic motion of said hoop-like memberon said rods, a sliding sleeve-like bracket located upon each of saidpivoted rods below the end of said main hoop-like member, free to slideon said rods and provided with lugs projecting forward and rearward oneach bracket, two subsidiary hoop-like members extending across saidvehicle, pivot pins uniting the ends of said subsidiary hoop likemembers to said lugs on said sliding sleeve-like brackets, pivoted linksconnecting said subsidiary hoop-like members to said main hoop-likemember, and means for holding the sleeve-like brackets stationary on thepivoted rods when the said hoop-like members are extended, substantiallyas set forth.

2. In folding hoods for road vehicles the combination of a supportingrod upon each side of a vehicle, pivots connecting the lower ends ofsuch supporting rods to said vehicle, a main hoop-like member to extendacross the vehicle having its two ends straight and tubular to fit overand telescopically move upon the free ends of said pivoted supportingrods, means for limiting the telescopic motion of said hoop-like memberon said rods, a sliding sleeve-like bracket located upon each of saidpivoted rods below the end of said main hooplike member, free to slideon said rods, and provided with lugs projecting forward and rearward oneach bracket, two subsidiary hoop-like members extending across saidvehicle, pivot pins uniting the ends of said subsidiary hoop-likemembers to said lugs on said sliding sleeve-like brackets, two links ateach side of the framework pivoted to each other and to the adjacentstraight and tubular portion of the main hoop-like member and pivoted attheir outer ends to the subsidiary hoop-like members, and means forholding the sleeve-like brackets stationary on the pivoted rods when thesaid hoop-like members are extended, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

CLOVIS BERTRAND. \Vitnesses THOMAS IV. Rooms, \Vnmmar Q. Minisrmriii.

